Brand new from Ontario, California

[Justin Delatore]

Hello everybody, I’m Justin Delatore from Ontario California. I’ve lived in Southern California my entire life. I am a family practice doctor that just barely finished residency training. So I am starting to look at my massive amounts of school debt and trying to plan for my future. I have 3 kids with one more coming soon so we are excited about that. I have recently witnessed some people around me that I look up to have financial troubles in fields/jobs that should be “secure.” This has gotten me interested in finding something that can help me find financial freedom to work my job because I like to and not because I have to. With that said I have zero real life experience with real estate. I have listened to some podcasts and watched some YouTube videos and that is the extent of my experience. However, what I have been gravitating towards has been the buy and hold rental properties, probably single family homes or maybe small multi family homes. We also have a friend who has recommended vacation rentals, but I’m not sure if we want to start with that. Since I do live in Southern California and the prices of homes are really high and going up (quite rapidly) every month I was considering investing out of state in more favorable markets. I look forward to getting to know more about real estate investing and starting to invest. I have a goal of obtaining my first rental property this year (though I still need to convince my wife).

[Rob D.]

Welcome. My wife and I have been real estate investors in the so cal market mainly Orange County for 25 years. We did out of state investments but the results were mediocre. The costs and the erase that you can be taken advantage of negates any gains. We got out of the out of state market. We moved  to Corona but our rentals are all in OC . If I can help let me know